Each store has eight draft selections (click the links on each name above) from makers including Unibroue, Ommegang, Captain Lawrence and Brooklyn. A 32-ounce refillable growler sells for $4, $5 for a 64-ounce refillable, and there is also a non-refillable two-liter option. Prices start at $4.99 for a quart, $8.99 for a galf-gallon, $9.99 for two liters. Said to pour without exposure to air, the growler stations’ beer will keep for 30 days, unopened, in the fridge. Read about the equipment, supplied by The Growler Station, here.

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My complaint with Price Chopper is their demanding ID to purchase alcohol. I under stand the need to protect themselves but I am sixty-six years and look every day of my age, still I get proofed.
I’d rather go to a business that has some respect for their customers and not just their bottom line.

That is why I won’t buy beer there. Coincidentally, just about every beer concession in the airports I have either flown into or departed from have the same policy. Though I like to have a few before a flight, they can go and have a relationship with themselves. Granted the server’s are only doing what they are told to do, but at some point in time I (we) should question authority. sorry Wille, not too far behind you agewise, but I am less than flattered.

It is probably just policy to ID everyone. That way no one can feel discriminated against.
Plus,they usually check the date on the license for expiration. Regardless of age,they are not allowed to sell alcohol to anyone with an expired ID,regardless of age.
I hadn’t noticed that my license expired(three days earlier) until the cashier at Hannaford told me when I was buying beer. She let it go through because it was only three days past,but did explain that she was not supposed to sell it with an expired ID.

Somehow, some have not gotten the point of my complaint with being Id’d for alcohol purchases at Price Chopper. I have no issue with not providing alcohol
to minors and to refuse service to an intoxicated customer.
My issue is providing a total stranger with my name and address so the purchase can be tracked.(al.
The cashiers need to be trained to use some judgement in determining a customers age. Lets say, under 35-40 then proof them if not sure. I have not approached any degree of senility that makes me believe that a twenty-something part-time clerk has mistaken me for a peer. Why is it that purchasing a drink with dinner or buying a bottle of wine at a local retail outlet does not merit an ID. I don’t think I look any different than I did in Price Chopper.
Apparently costumer courtesy is secondary to corporate cya.

The manager and associates of a local Stewarts all know me by name and know damn well I am 37, but I still have my license out to buy beer. The manager explained to me once that they get rated on how many alcohol sales they make versus how many IDs they scan. Additionally most most of them still visually check the expiration date before they scan my license.

The question is ~ Will they offer a selection of hard ciders as well?? We travel far and wide to get our growlers filled with hard cider. Sometimes The Brew Crew on Western Ave. has a couple of hard ciders to fill growlers; and the new Annandale Cidery hard cider fills growlers at the Rhinebeck Farmers Market. . .

I’ve used these several times, and depending on who is filling them, decides if you’re getting beer or foam. So far, most of the employees are having a difficult time with these. First off, they are counter pressure fillers… we have one at home as we brew and keg and bottle from kegs. Some of them can’t understand the process… fill growler with Co2 to purge oxygen, pressurize growler to same as keg, trickle in ale, hit with Co2 and cap on foam. I saw one guy wait for 15 minutes for a growler of foam last weekend.

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